Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Life is short and so is money.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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